This is the first year of Jack Eichel’s NHL career that he is not playing alongside Evander Kane and as soon as he left he decided to switch his number.
Dustin Byfuglien broke a tie with 6:45 remaining in the third period for his 500th NHL point to help the Winnipeg Jets to a 2-1 win against the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena on Friday.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Sebastian Aho extended his season-opening point streak to 10 games when the Carolina Hurricanes defeated the San Jose Sharks 4-3 in a shootout at PNC Arena on Friday.
DENVER -- Matt Duchene scored two goals in his first game in Denver since his trade, but the Ottawa Senators lost to the Colorado Avalanche 6-3 at Pepsi Center on Friday.Mikko Rantanen had a goal and three assists to take over the NHL scoring lead with 20 points, and Nathan MacKinnon and Gabriel Landeskog each had a goal and two assists for the Avalanche (7-2-2). Philipp Grubauer, in his first home start, made 21 saves.
LAS VEGAS -- Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves and the Tampa Bay Lightning pushed their point streak to seven with a 3-2 win against the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena on Friday.
BOSTON -- With each person he talked to, Patrice Bergeron dropped his voice lower. It started out with his usual French accent, but his tone got deeper and deeper and deeper as the afternoon wore on.